Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

In article Richard Owlett wrote: > When searching for more information all I'm finding are > essentially HOWTO's with only a couple of paragraphs on "Whats" > and "Whys". Essentially nothing on "Why not". One good use is when you're encrypting / (and /home if it's own) and swap. I use luks t

Re: var is full...

Brian: > > To remove every package and the package lists in apt/archives: > > apt-get clean. The package lists are unaffected by the clean operation. You do not need to run an update afterwards. What's not generally known is that apt comes with a cron job that can perform house keeping. It ca

Re: Adobe Flash

On Wednesday 18 November 2015 20:21:26 Tom Ashley wrote: > On 11/18/2015 06:55 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 18 November 2015 15:59:45 Tom Ashley wrote: > >> On 11/18/2015 01:30 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> On Wednesday 18 November 2015 10:05:33 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 18

Re: Adobe Flash

On 11/18/2015 06:55 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 18 November 2015 15:59:45 Tom Ashley wrote: On 11/18/2015 01:30 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 18 November 2015 10:05:33 Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 18 November 2015 14:24:17 Alex Vong wrote: Hi, Next time please send your

Re: Root account blocked

On Thu 19 Nov 2015 at 00:12:31 +0100, Dan wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 8:42 PM, Brian wrote: > > On Wed 18 Nov 2015 at 20:05:38 +0100, Dan wrote: > > > >> If a wrong password is used many times to log as root, does the root > >> account gets locked? > > > > No. > > > >> I was in a hurry and i

Re: Adobe Flash

On Wednesday 18 November 2015 23:55:02 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 18 November 2015 15:59:45 Tom Ashley wrote: > > On 11/18/2015 01:30 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Wednesday 18 November 2015 10:05:33 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > >> On Wednesday 18 November 2015 14:24:17 Alex Vong wrote: > > >>>

Re: Adobe Flash

On Wednesday 18 November 2015 23:46:51 Gene Heskett wrote: > Whats an iPLayer?  Sounds like something from Apple? Yes, I know. :-( It is the BBC's paid-for* television and radio output. It is only available in some parts of the world. In its entirety it is available only in the UK. Accessibl

Re: Adobe Flash

On Wednesday 18 November 2015 15:59:45 Tom Ashley wrote: > On 11/18/2015 01:30 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 18 November 2015 10:05:33 Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> On Wednesday 18 November 2015 14:24:17 Alex Vong wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> Next time please send your email to > >>> for user

Re: Adobe Flash

On Wednesday 18 November 2015 14:37:45 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 18 November 2015 18:41:14 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 18 November 2015 10:33:55 Siard wrote: > > > On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 15:05:33 +,Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > On Wednesday 18 November 2015 14:24:17 Alex Vong wrote: >

Re: Adobe Flash

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Debian Live USB Persistence

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Re: Adobe Flash

On Wednesday 18 November 2015 20:59:45 Tom Ashley wrote: > On 11/18/2015 01:30 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 18 November 2015 10:05:33 Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> On Wednesday 18 November 2015 14:24:17 Alex Vong wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> Next time please send your email to > >>> for user

Re: Root account blocked

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 8:42 PM, Brian wrote: > On Wed 18 Nov 2015 at 20:05:38 +0100, Dan wrote: > >> If a wrong password is used many times to log as root, does the root >> account gets locked? > > No. > >> I was in a hurry and introduced a wrong password for root a few times >> and now I can not

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

On 19/11/2015 6:14 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > Windows XP runs on a dedicated machine whose functions are browsing and > email. XP -- that's dead now; lots of security issues that will never get fixed. Do you really need Windows now? What is it that XP does for you that you can't do with Windows

Re: var is full...(Solved)

To all, [Brad, Hans, Jorg-Volker, Brian and David] Thank you all for your replies. I just got done moving free space from Home to my var partition, again.Darn Debian installer uses too small a var partition as mentioned in my OP. Let me apologize for those who thought I meant I could not

Re: Adobe Flash

On 11/18/2015 01:30 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 18 November 2015 10:05:33 Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 18 November 2015 14:24:17 Alex Vong wrote: Hi, Next time please send your email to for user questions, thanks! (You can also CC me since I don't subscribe the debian-user list.

Re: gnome-shell crashing on Debian Testing - nouveau

On 2015-11-18 19:51 +, Ben Stones wrote: > I have been testing Debian 9 Stretch and every time I execute "glxinfo > | grep renderer", gnome-shell crashes, leaving me with only a cursor > to move freely and the desktop wallpaper (running on a computer with > an NVIDIA GeForce 750 Ti, NV117). H

gnome-shell crashing on Debian Testing - nouveau

Hello, I have been testing Debian 9 Stretch and every time I execute "glxinfo | grep renderer", gnome-shell crashes, leaving me with only a cursor to move freely and the desktop wallpaper (running on a computer with an NVIDIA GeForce 750 Ti, NV117). Can someone kindly direct me as to where I

Re: Root account blocked

On Wed 18 Nov 2015 at 20:05:38 +0100, Dan wrote: > If a wrong password is used many times to log as root, does the root > account gets locked? No. > I was in a hurry and introduced a wrong password for root a few times > and now I can not log as root. > > I think that I'm using the right passwo

Re: Adobe Flash

On Wednesday 18 November 2015 18:41:14 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 18 November 2015 10:33:55 Siard wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 15:05:33 +,Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Wednesday 18 November 2015 14:24:17 Alex Vong wrote: > > > > To watch , first install

Re: Adobe Flash

On Wednesday 18 November 2015 19:24:31 moxalt wrote: > > The OP is currently watching the > > news on Doze.  Hardly more secure than flash > > And OP should do neither. That's a bit arrogant - saying that other people shouldn't watch the news on their computers because you would choose not to do

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

LVM should work the same way for both distros, but just in case, you might want to do the initial setup in Squeeze. I don't know if anything has changed in the LVM format in the past 20 years, but... --| John L. Ries | Salford Systems | Phone: (61

Re: Adobe Flash

On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 17:55:47 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 18 November 2015 17:50:18 moxalt wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 15:05:33 +, Lisi Reisz > > wrote: > > > On Wednesday 18 November 2015 14:24:17 Alex Vong wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > Next time please send your emai

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

[As I'm subscribed "Reply-To" set to debian-user ] On 11/18/2015 11:33 AM, John L. Ries wrote: Which systems do you intend to dual boot? Two configurations of Squeeze, possibly one of Jessie. My understanding is that if one of them is Windows, you're out of luck; but you can always run Wi

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 01:29:01PM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: LVM is a kludge. Not at all. LVM can increase the size of partitions by giving them more space on either an empty section of disk or another disk. Either way, you Yes. then need to increase the filesystem size on that partition,

Root account blocked

Hi, If a wrong password is used many times to log as root, does the root account gets locked? I was in a hurry and introduced a wrong password for root a few times and now I can not log as root. I think that I'm using the right password (although I can not be sure 100%). I checked the modificati

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

d...@randomstring.org wrote: > >Here's why not: > >LVM is a kludge. Not at all, no. LVM *as a concept* has been around for ages in a lot of enterprise systems. The Linux implementation using device-mapper works reasonably well and provides a lot of features that people use a lot. >That doesn't me

Re: Adobe Flash

On Wednesday 18 November 2015 10:33:55 Siard wrote: > On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 15:05:33 +,Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Wednesday 18 November 2015 14:24:17 Alex Vong wrote: > > > To watch , first install > > > youtube-dl: $ apt-get install youtube-dl > > I just watched

Re: Adobe Flash

On Wednesday 18 November 2015 10:05:33 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 18 November 2015 14:24:17 Alex Vong wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Next time please send your email to > > for user questions, thanks! (You can also CC me since I don't > > subscribe the debian-user list.) > > > > To watch

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 06:08:49PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > In some of my reading I came across a page recommending LVM for ease > of adjusting space. > > When searching for more information all I'm finding are essentially > HOWTO's with only a couple of paragraphs on "Whats" and "Whys". > E

Re: Adobe Flash

On Wednesday 18 November 2015 17:50:18 moxalt wrote: > On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 15:05:33 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Wednesday 18 November 2015 14:24:17 Alex Vong wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Next time please send your email to for > > > user questions, thanks! (You can also CC me since I don't su

Re: Adobe Flash

On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 15:05:33 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 18 November 2015 14:24:17 Alex Vong wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Next time please send your email to for > > user questions, thanks! (You can also CC me since I don't subscribe > > the debian-user list.) > > > > To watch

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

Which systems do you intend to dual boot? My understanding is that if one of them is Windows, you're out of luck; but you can always run Windows in a VM and let Linux manage the LVM file systems. --| John L. Ries | Salford Systems | Phone: (619)54

RE: Pet Owners List

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Re: Debian testing crashes

On Wednesday 18 November 2015 16:06:12 Shaolintl . wrote: > Dear Debian users, > > Due to problems with my wifi card (Intel Corporation Wireless 7265) when > using the stable version of Debian, I have installed the testing version. > Since then, the system crashes randomly on an almost daily basis.

Debian testing crashes

Dear Debian users, Due to problems with my wifi card (Intel Corporation Wireless 7265) when using the stable version of Debian, I have installed the testing version. Since then, the system crashes randomly on an almost daily basis. When this happen the system first freezes for a couple of seconds

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 06:08:49PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: In some of my reading I came across a page recommending LVM for ease of adjusting space. When searching for more information all I'm finding are essentially HOWTO's with only a couple of paragraphs on "Whats" and "Whys". Essenti

Re: var is full...

Am Mittwoch, 18. November 2015, 09:41:38 schrieb David Wright: > On Wed 18 Nov 2015 at 15:42:29 (+0100), Hans wrote: > > try to boot from a live system like Knoppix or any other live-cd. > > > > Then mount the partition, where /var resides and you can delete files you > > do not need (for example

Re: var is full...

On Wednesday 18 November 2015 15:36:47 Brian wrote: > On Wed 18 Nov 2015 at 12:20:51 -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 15:42:29 +0100 > > > > Hans wrote: > > > try to boot from a live system like Knoppix or any other live-cd. > > > > > > Then mount the partition, where /var re

Re: post dis-upgrade troubles

On Wed 18 Nov 2015 at 10:27:53 (+0100), Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > Good morning everybody. > > I just did a dist-upgrade of my laptop to the latest debian stable, and > now systemd should govern the machine. > > But whenever I choose the new tool the boot hangs on the > binfmt.service, prevenmtin

Re: var is full...

On Wed 18 Nov 2015 at 15:42:29 (+0100), Hans wrote: > try to boot from a live system like Knoppix or any other live-cd. > > Then mount the partition, where /var resides and you can delete files you do > not need (for example old packages). Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought that one could del

[RESOLVED] Re: lost onboard network connection on stretch

On 17/11/15 10:59 AM, Gary Dale wrote: After an upgrade & reboot last week, I lost my onboard network connection on my Stretch/AMD64 system. I can still see the device using lspci: 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Contr

Re: var is full...

On Wed 18 Nov 2015 at 12:20:51 -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 15:42:29 +0100 > Hans wrote: > > > try to boot from a live system like Knoppix or any other live-cd. > > > > Then mount the partition, where /var resides and you can delete files you > > do > > not need (for exa

Re: how execute a script

On Wed 18 Nov 2015 at 15:42:44 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 08:54:46AM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 18 Nov 2015 at 08:47:59 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > > Here, gunzip is seeing the file name. Since gzip, by convention, removes > > > the original

Re: Adobe Flash

On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 15:05:33 +,Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 18 November 2015 14:24:17 Alex Vong wrote: > > To watch , first install > > youtube-dl: $ apt-get install youtube-dl > > Or just install flashplugin-nonfree with Iceweasel, or watch with > Google

Re: var is full...

On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 15:42:29 +0100 Hans wrote: > try to boot from a live system like Knoppix or any other live-cd. > > Then mount the partition, where /var resides and you can delete files you do > not need (for example old packages). Or just su to root in a console, cd to /var/cache/apt/archi

Re: how execute a script

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 08:54:46AM -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 18 Nov 2015 at 08:47:59 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > Here, gunzip is seeing the file name. Since gzip, by convention, removes > > the original (and gunzip the compressed)

Re: var is full...

On Wed 18 Nov 2015 at 09:08:35 -0500, Whit Hansell wrote: > my Var directory is 100% full. I have googled abouit it and reallly haven't > gotten a decent idea of what I can safely delete from var. I have bot tmp > and cache subdirectories and can easily fump the tmp but it is very small > and won

Re: Adobe Flash

On Wednesday 18 November 2015 14:24:17 Alex Vong wrote: > Hi, > > Next time please send your email to for > user questions, thanks! (You can also CC me since I don't subscribe > the debian-user list.) > > To watch , first install youtube-dl: > $ apt-get install yo

Re: var is full...

To see how much is used where order as super user du /var -hx --max-depth=1 Do you have mount points in /var ? Regards, jvp.

Re: how execute a script

On Wed 18 Nov 2015 at 08:47:59 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Here, gunzip is seeing the file name. Since gzip, by convention, removes > the original (and gunzip the compressed), effectively replacing each by > the other), those programs are extra careful. The file name pattern is > part of th

Re: Adobe Flash

Hi, Next time please send your email to for user questions, thanks! (You can also CC me since I don't subscribe the debian-user list.) To watch , first install youtube-dl: $ apt-get install youtube-dl I suggest you to install vlc as well if you don't have a pre

Re: var is full...

Hi Whit, try to boot from a live system like Knoppix or any other live-cd. Then mount the partition, where /var resides and you can delete files you do not need (for example old packages). If your filesystem is not encrypted, then youz might want to enlarge the partition without any loss. You

Re: var is full...

On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 09:08:35 -0500 Whit Hansell wrote: Hello Whit, >is very small and won't really give me much room. Can anyone with >knowledge give me the subdirectories in var/cache that I can empty to >get a reasonable amount of free space? Running Jessie on an amd64 box. Look at /var/c

var is full...

Hey y'all, my Var directory is 100% full. I have googled abouit it and reallly haven't gotten a decent idea of what I can safely delete from var. I have bot tmp and cache subdirectories and can easily fump the tmp but it is very small and won't really give me much room. Can anyone with knowl

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

On 11/18/2015 4:07 AM, Joel Rees wrote: 2015/11/18 9:09 "Richard Owlett": In some of my reading I came across a page recommending LVM for ease of adjusting space. Yeah. I'm not using it now, but it did come in handy when I was still getting a feeling for partitioning. I've a machine set as

Re: how execute a script

On Wed 18 Nov 2015 at 08:49:13 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 11:08:24PM +, Brian wrote: > > On Tue 17 Nov 2015 at 21:18:57 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 06:56:40PM +, Brian wrote: > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > My example: g

Re: How to get a PGP SIGNED MESSAGE

Hi, GC wrote: > I would like to get a PGP SIGNED MESSAGE. How do I do that? For production, see chapter 1 of GPG documentatio, "Getting Started": https://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual/c14.html (note the swapping of "g" and "p" in comparison to PGP.) The manual of gpg is quite rich in detail in

How to add category to KDE menu?

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Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

2015/11/18 9:09 "Richard Owlett" : > > In some of my reading I came across a page recommending LVM for ease of adjusting space. Yeah. I'm not using it now, but it did come in handy when I was still getting a feeling for partitioning. > When searching for more information all I'm finding are essen

post dis-upgrade troubles

Good morning everybody. I just did a dist-upgrade of my laptop to the latest debian stable, and now systemd should govern the machine. But whenever I choose the new tool the boot hangs on the binfmt.service, prevenmting the machine to become useful. The solution I use is to power-cycle and restar

Re: How to configure cron (and pam?) to allow mail from cron?

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 06:35:26PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 07:04:38AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 09:05:03AM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > > Alternatively you could get cron to run a normal script and do > > > everything in that. Just

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

On 11/18/2015 2:03 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Richard Owlett a écrit : In some of my reading I came across a page recommending LVM for ease of adjusting space. When searching for more information all I'm finding are essentially HOWTO's with only a couple of paragraphs on "Whats" and "Whys". Ess

Re: How to get a PGP SIGNED MESSAGE

On 18/11/15 18:19, GC wrote: > I would like to get a PGP SIGNED MESSAGE. How do I do that? Could you be more specific? If it was just your goal in life to have someone send an OpenPGP signed email, you can cross that off your "bucket list". I suspect that was not your aim though. Are you intend

Re: No display after installing Debian Jessie

Felix Miata wrote: > Use it to replace the string "quiet" if it exists. UUID=... should also be present somewhere on that line. Replacing "quiet" by either vga =normal or vga=788 does not work. However replacing it with 'nomodeset' works. I have been able to get the console. However this works

Re: No display after installing Debian Jessie

Felix Miata wrote: > Use it to replace the string "quiet" if it exists. UUID=... should also be present somewhere on that line. Replacing "quiet" by either vga =normal or vga=788 does not work. However replacing it with 'nomodeset' works. I have been able to get the console. However this works

Re: No display after installing Debian Jessie

Felix Miata wrote: > Use it to replace the string "quiet" if it exists. UUID=... should also be present somewhere on that line. Replacing "quiet" by either vga =normal or vga=788. However replacing it with 'nomodeset' works. I have been able to get the console. However this works only if I do n

Re: How to get a PGP SIGNED MESSAGE

On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 00:19:24 -0800 GC wrote: Hello GC, >I would like to get a PGP SIGNED MESSAGE. How do I do that? Wait for somebody to send you one. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent" Well you tried it just the

Re: how execute a script

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 11:08:24PM +, Brian wrote: > On Tue 17 Nov 2015 at 21:18:57 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 06:56:40PM +, Brian wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > My example: gv does not recognise the PDF fil

Re: how execute a script

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 11:08:46PM +, Brian wrote: > On Tue 17 Nov 2015 at 21:41:01 +0100, Luis Felipe Tabera Alonso wrote: > > > On Tuesday 17 November 2015 20:21:23 Brian wrote: > > > > > > I've also asked for a *concrete example* of a program

How to get a PGP SIGNED MESSAGE

I would like to get a PGP SIGNED MESSAGE. How do I do that?

Re: how execute a script

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 05:17:46PM -0500, shawn wilson wrote: [...] > > Got it. But magic *can* do many of those things. A headless shell > > script is a tough nut to crack, though: "echo" could occur as well > > in a Tcl script (via Tcl's crazy but

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

Richard Owlett a écrit : > In some of my reading I came across a page recommending LVM for > ease of adjusting space. > > When searching for more information all I'm finding are > essentially HOWTO's with only a couple of paragraphs on "Whats" > and "Whys". Essentially nothing on "Why not". >